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The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Wednesday in Abuja pledged to bequeath a country free from proliferation of substandard products.
The Director-General of SON, Malam Farouk Salim, said this at a news conference to mark the official commencement of events lined up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organisation.
SON began its operation of monitoring standard of products in Nigeria in 1970, and will be having the grand breaking celebration on Nov. 28 in Abuja.
Salim said that to protect the future of the nation, the organisation had adopted 213 industrial standards to checkmate the proliferation of substandard products.
He said that over 168 new standards were approved by SON for two years, adding that the organisation had gone through a series of transformations within the last 50 years.